This post will include mostly similarly-themed variants.

2023 was Disney’s Centennial! And thus, we got the Disney 100 Marvel What If mashup covers! These were so fun to get! They all depicted homages to famous covers from Marvel’s history using Disney’s Mickey and his friends. These were all either Lorenzo Pastrovicchio or Giada Pastrovicchio variants for Amazing Spider-Man.

I could go through all the covers being paid homage to, but I won’t because I feel like most comic fans would know which covers these are representing. They do all look great together.

And in 2024, it was X-Men’s 60th Anniversary! So they continued the crossover cover theme through specific X-Men covers. Still variants for Amazing Spider-Man.

Another great set!

And guess what? It was also The Avengers 60th Anniversary in 2024. So, most of the alternating covers for the previously mentioned Amazing Spider-Man variants were these covers.

And of course these were homage covers for various classic Avengers comics.

This next sets’ covers were in the art style of animation. These all showed the villains of each particular hero. The wonderful Dave Bardin did all these.

Now, I’m not 100% sure that these are all the covers because when I tried looking a list up, I didn’t find any lists nor did I find any full sets on sale anywhere. So, if next variant sorting time, I find another, I’ll add it and do another photo. These all look great!

23 covers! This is the Marvel ‘97 cartoon themed set by various artists. For each photo of them I’ve added the artist in the caption.

Such a fun set! I love the all the styles while still fitting into the 90’s cartoon theme.

This will be 4 posts for these complete sets. the first three posts are all of sets that I’d mostly collected during the sorting back in June and I needed 1-3 more covers to finish. The last post will be sets that are new.

These two first sets were ones where I thought I had all the covers of the set, but I was either wrong or just forgot about.

This Momoko set you’ll recognize from a previous collection post. For this set, this Peter Parker cover came out months after the other issues. So it’s not a set within a title, but it’s obviously the same style. They all look so good!! I’d love to see more Spider-characters in this design style.

The same story with this J. Scott Campbell cover! I thought it was a four-issue set, but nope, it’s five…though, I hope I’m not forgetting another one. Well, we’ll see next time.

And of course, they all look amazing together.

Jenny Frison! I’ve been waiting to see this set together for three years! And it did not fail to astonish. This also made me excited to eventually get to a huge box of so many variants from when I first started collecting since that has a bunch more covers from Frison as-well-as a few others of my favorites. That was before I’d used the small boxes, so they were all in a huge box. One day during the early pandemic i sat down and sorted out all the variants that I wanted in their own place and the just cool cover variants. So I have that huge box with a bunch more to be sorted. But I wanted to catch up with present day variants before I tackle that box.

Look at this set!! I purposefully had the light above since the covers at the top wanted more light. And I just didn’t want to do another photos with the light coming from below. I love Jenny Frison’s art!!

The rest of the sets for this post are all Nakayama covers!

This was his cover run of Catwoman from 51-68 with him being the main cover artist.

They all have such different tones from each other! Such a great set!

And then of course we have David’s Poison Ivy main (mostly) cover set! I love the greens and oranges! I included that connecting set image again even though I had it in the previous posts from June.

I arranged these specifically. The top one was Nakayama’s first cover for this run, though it was a variant, with Spawn! And then over a dozen issues later, he was brought in to do the main covers! That was 8 issues of his amazing art! Three of which were of course that brilliant connecting cover art. Then one last main cover for this run. And finally, he was chosen for an Artist Spotlight set of six variants for different titles. Those will all be together in a layer post.

I’m going to pause writing these so I can watch the first episode of Peacemaker season 2! Then I’ll come back to get the last couple posts done.

As usual, connecting variants first! And this will probably be 3 posts like last time but it may be more, I’m not sure yet.

These sets were similar to June’s sets, not as bad but still none that really connected as they should. Most of the faults were overlaps or misalignments.

There are a lot of these two-issue sets from Sean Galloway this time! I thought these would be all sets when they first appeared, but there are a lot that are on their own. So, I probably will have to make a post with all the ones I’ve not taken photos of and also have one like that for the Windowshades covers.

These are fun covers. There was a bit of misalignment and obviously the colors are not matched up at all. But I still like this image of Marvel’s First Family having fun while some villain is trying to get their attention.

I love Mark Spears’ covers! Probably for similar reasons to why we all love Alex Ross’s art. The realism is so well-done! I would love something like this from him but with as many Lanterns on it as he could fit. Perhaps one set for each Lantern ring or one with all of them.

This one was I think a little bit of an overlap. Though only by a sliver of page. A lot of the overlaps were really just the card cover not reaching the edge of the rest of the book so there’s that sliver of pages on the right side. As I’ve said before, you’d think they would have figured out all these connecting cover problems by now, in 2025.

Here’s another Galloway set! this was during the Blood Hunt event.

This was both misaligned and overlapped. But still a fun and busy cover!

A 12-issue connecting cover grid!! This was an interesting set indeed. I do love the line-work and the colors! Bravo to John Timms!

This set had some parts overlapping and other parts misaligned. So I did my best to make sure that the vertical connections worked. Now, I will say that for a connecting set, usually there’s one background connecting image and then the characters are mostly in the foreground, and this whole image seemed all over the place. When I first saw the set in the previews, I wasn’t 100% sure I was even looking at a connecting set.

Having said all that, I do love that this image feels like it’s storyboard for a big comicbook movie event! There’s so much going on that you want to look at every inch of it to find something you hadn’t noticed before. And as I said, the art itself is amazing! There are two photos because I wanted to get the light on both ends but with the angles I had to work with, I couldn’t make it work. Hence, after this, sets with 12 or more, had photos take elsewhere.

Here’s a Galloway set of 4!

Such a fun set! If only there wasn’t a gap between those first two issues, not the color matches between covers being non-existent, nor the overlap issues. But other than the problems, the image itself is so great! A lot going on and all the characters are front-and-center!

This artist is a name and art that I recognized from a recent connecting cover set. Chris Giarrusso did a great job with this homage set to that classic X-Men Jim Lee cover!

This is another set that I really wanted to connect well! This one was both misalignments and overlaps. Though those last two issues look really good next to each other. It’s still such a fantastic image!

More Mark Spears! This time with the Super-Family!

Such a great image! This one was an overlap. I’ll have to think about where to put these within my set boxes. The family looks great! And the villains look great too!

This next set is by Josemaria Casanovas. Since Peach Momoko’s Ultimate X-Men run started, I’ve been wondering what those characters would look like in normal Ultimates art styles, since Momoko’s style is so unique. Seeing all these characters in one image was great!

The first and third through sixth issues all had the overlap problem. But the second issue somehow was printed and cut at a slight angle? Very odd indeed. But the whole image does look pretty great.

These are both the main covers for these issues by Dan Panosian. I really like this image!

This was an overlap via the sliver of page. But other than that, everything else looks great!

And that’s the end of the connecting covers for this sorting. Well, I will have a couple more in the next couple parts of the complete sets posts, but I felt they better suited those posts, or also, I’d already covered them.

Another two months since the last Complete Collections posts! This time things were a bit more complicated and took much longer because of two things. One was that a small part of the basement flooded on the morning that I was going to start doing this. So, that took 3 days way from my schedule. And the second thing is that I ran out of the small boxes I use for this. And since the comic distribution company that used them essentially went under, the boxes weren’t being made anymore. So I had to use the ones that I had as efficiently as possible. And it did work out very well for most of the sorting. I still have half a short-box of comics I have to put in boxes and I have found a place to order them from, so I’m waiting their delivery to finish up completely. But I finished taking photos yesterday.

From 66 boxes to 71! Not much during the initial sorting because I ended up not needing a lot since many of the incomplete boxes got a lot of comics moved to the complete boxes. This was me sorting 24 weeks of variants from last year!